The hearing included testimony from Ms. Abigail Ross Hopper of BOEM, Mayor John Hopson, Jr. of Wainwright, Alaska; Dr. Donald Boesch of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Mr. Athan Manuel of the Sierra Club, Dr. James Knapp of the University of South Carolina School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment; and Dr. Joseph Mason of the Louisiana State University E.J. Ourso College of Business.